I was wondering if I could install google chrome without using the sudo command.

I've tried to use the tutorials from google but I couldn't read it because I accidently downloaded the french version of Ubuntu, so I basically don't know what's happening, also, I'm a complete noob at Ubuntu... so if anyone could give me a very very basic tutorial on how to do it, it would be appreciated.

In Trusty, ldd chrome complained about a missing libudev.so.0 which in fact does not exist on my system. /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 does, but it seems like this was bumped up from .0 to .1 in Precise. However askubuntu.com/a/531098/49860 clarified that you can just make a symlink between them. I also had to add the directory with the symlink to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and make sure …/opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox was -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root, but then it worked. Workaround for poor Hangout support in Chromium.
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Jesse GlickOct 29 '14 at 21:15

Good to know, how did you chown the sandbox without sudo access though?
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Sh3ljohnOct 30 '14 at 10:17

In my case I did have sudo access, I just did not want to install Chrome as a package.
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Jesse GlickNov 3 '14 at 14:52

Best answer here. I like that this isn't just applicable just to chrome
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Dylan MadisettiJan 16 at 13:39

If you go to the website and download the .deb package, you'll still need to be able to authenticate as root (with sudo or a graphical sudo frontend) to install it. Are you saying that, somewhere on the Google Chrome website, there is a distribution of Google Chrome that will run without first being installed as root? If so, can you edit your answer to provide more details about where on the site one can find this?
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Eliah KaganOct 9 '12 at 1:29

You can use the latest builds of the chromium project and use it directly without sudo. All you would need to do is to extract the zip they provide and then execute it using terminal. You can look for more information in this method at how-to-install-chromium-zip-file